enrage

From Old French enrager, enragier, from rage. Equivalent to en- +‎ rage.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɹeɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

enrage (third-person singular simple present enrages, present participle enraging, simple past and past participle enraged)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become angry or wild. [16th–18th c.]
2. (transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke to madness, to make insane.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 2:

     La[dy Macbeth]. I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe
     Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight. […]
     Len[nox]. Good night, and better health
     Attend his Maieſty.

• See also Thesaurus:enrage

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Enrage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 197, column 2.

• Gerena, anegre, angree, genera

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʁaʒ/

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enrage

1. inflection of enrager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• gênera, généra, rangée